Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth, sentence 4
On the Moon, where there is no air, an astronaut dropped a hammer and a feather, and they landed at exactly the same moment.
Who acts: air, astronaut, feather · What happens: be, drop, land · To what, where: hammer, Moon
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth» of the physics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, astronaut, feather), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 Moon | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 3 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dropped | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Moon | punct |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 is | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Moon | acl:relcl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dropped | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 astronaut | det |
| 12 | astronaut | astronaut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dropped | nsubj |
| 13 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hammer | det |
| 15 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dropped | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 feather | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 feather | det |
| 18 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hammer | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 landed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 landed | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 landed | nsubj |
| 22 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dropped | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 moment | case |
| 24 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 27 moment | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 moment | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 moment | amod |
| 27 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 landed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no air | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drop | past | a astronaut | a hammer and a feather | the Moon | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme on moon=Destination | |||
| 3 | land | past | feather | moment | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:physics:001-why-things-fall.lesson:4.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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